Updated 2025. "The best advice I can give on navigating one-on-one networking is to check out The 20-Minute Networking Meeting. Follow their advice and your meeting will be a well-crafted success." - USA Today College *WINNER - USA Best Book Award - College Guides Category! Part of the multi-award-winning The 20-Minute Networking Meeting series, Graduate Edition is a simple, step-by-step guide written expressly for job-seeking grads, whether two-year, four-year, trade school, graduate or doctoral level, and shows you how to use your educational background to express your professional experience. This includes anyone that has gone back to school, and can be used whether your meetings are virtual or in person! Built using the acclaimed The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Executive Edition networking model lauded by business leaders around the world, the Graduate Edition shows you how to develop the most important career-making skillset in business--networking. Taking the best elements of the best networkers from a wide array of industries and professions, combined with 40 years of the authors' professional networking experience, the Graduate Edition culminates in a highly productive networking approach from a hiring perspective. In this book, learn what networking (really) is, and how to: Master the 5 most important parts of a networking meeting - Create a networking agenda - Construct key questions to lead a discussion - Write networking emails to people you don't know - Expand your professional network with more names - Break into the "Invisible/Hidden Job Market" (where over 70% of all jobs are obtained) - Make a networking meeting more effective, efficient, and mutually beneficial - Execute the above (and much more)-- inside of 20 minutes - Maintain your new network throughout your career! Chockfull of real-world scenarios, short stories, meeting examples, and dozens of tips and observations from students, hiring authorities and recruiting experts, the Graduate Edition is an end-to-end lesson on job-search networking founded on the premises of gratitude, positivity, and reciprocity. Specifically constructed to clarify and simplify networking for even the most introverted networker, the Graduate Edition is rounded out with a complete set of readiness worksheets that guide the reader through actual networking preparation, with fully written stories that show the entire The 20-Minute Networking Meeting model in action. Take control of your job-search - and your career! Also from Career Innovations Press: The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Professional Edition The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Veterans Edition The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Executive Edition "Being able to quickly make connections with people is a differentiator in today's job market. The 20MNM provides a step-by-step action plan that kicks off your job search with high-powered efficiency. There are scores of books and blogs about writing a resume, but only one real source for networking. Every grad should read this book!" -Wendy Brostrom, former University Recruiting Manager, General Mills "Networking is the key to discovering opportunities in the 'hidden job market,' and in the marketplace, and no class can prepare you the way The 20-Minute Networking Meeting does. A quick, engaging read, [this book] will give you the confidence, practical advice, and tools to get the results you want--and to make the best use of your time." -David Bortnem, President & COO, Piranha X; former Chief Operating Officer, Regis (Salons) Corp. "When I went into career transition, I was lost until I discovered The 20MNM . The tips in the book unlocked my confidence and has given me the networking technique I was in search of. I've recommended this book to dozens of people and still have my copy close at hand. I highly recommend it." -Stacy Webb, former VP Business Planning & Operations and CEO Chief of Staff, Best Buy "Networking is both a science and an art, and 20MNM is the Bible for effective employment networking. It's an investment in personal success with immediate and long-term return." - David A. Brumbaugh, former VP Human Resources, Children's Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota; former VP Human Resources Cigna Healthcare "20MNM is the simple, secret recipe that wows your contacts. Easy to follow, the Graduate Edition makes an impact and creates meaningful networking meetings. I carry its framework with me always, and pass on extra copies to individuals looking for that same secret recipe." -Jackie Ottoson, former VP of Human Resources, Famous Dave's; former VP HR McKesson Corp.; former VP HR CVS/Caremark Nathan A. Perez  is an award-winning author, national speaker and executive career and job-search coach at Career Innovation. Prior to his Career Innovation consultancy, Nathan worked in the executive search industry in the Research function. Responsible for the first step in the executive recruitment process, Nathan